The attorney for a prominent Democratic congressional employee at the center of a major criminal investigation has deep ties to the Clinton machine in Washington.

Attorney Chris Gowen is serving as the lawyer for Imran Awan, a Pakistani-American IT professional who was apprehended at Dulles Airport this week as he reportedly attempted to leave the country for Pakistan.

Awan has been charged with bank fraud (which the Daily Caller reports as a potential “placeholder” charge for much more serious coming charges), and the FBI has been deeply involved in the process, leading some to suspect that there may be a foreign espionage component to the investigation. As an IT staffer, Awan secured highly sensitive information from several members of Congress, including representatives in the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees. Imran Awan is just one of the individuals in a criminal probe. Other suspects in the investigation reportedly fled to Pakistan.

After Awan’s arrest, Gowen immediately jumped into the fray, alleging that Awan was a victim of Islamophobia. He labeled Awan’s arrest as part of “a right-wing media-driven prosecution by a United States Attorney’s Office that wants to prosecute people for working while Muslim.

Now, Nancy Pelosi herself has been linked to Awan, as none other than Julian Assange points out:

Awan was caught attempting to flee the US on Monday night and transfer around $300,000 to his house in Pakistan after an investigation by The Daily Caller found the FBI seized a host of smashed up hard drives from his home.

The fact that the Clintons, the DNC, Nancy Pelosi, and a variety of other Democrat Congressmen associated with intelligence oversight are involved in a major scandal should be a five-alarm journalistic fire for legacy media.